There is hardly any discussion on this trending variety of web enshitification where a website needs to give physical locations to people. Many web devs are starting to spotlight their profound incompetence in accomplishing this very simple task. They throw up an interactive map which requires the full utilization of fancy GUI browser frills that excludes all but those who “chase the shiny”. A 1990s high schooler to do this better in plain HTML.
Doesn’t this screw over blind people? How does a screen reader handle a map?
My hardened low-bandwidth browser can’t handle this absurd degree of putting fancy above access equality. When this shit happens on a vendor’s website and I’m trying to locate them to give them business, the answer is easy: they can fuck off and lose my business. But it’s sad when a government does it and the information has medical relevance.
As a web developer I typically mark up an HTML
<address>tag then reluctantly provide a link to the platform’s native map app.Even from a purely design standpoint I too think it’s gross to shove down an
<iframe>and call it a day. What the fuck are you supposed to do with that? I’ve never sat there browsing someone’s map in an<iframe>before so I have no idea why doing that is so common.
